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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1928-06-15

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1928-06-15, page 01

•'S.»''i
Central 0/iio's On/e/
Jewish Newspaper
Reaching Ecery Home
xamk
Dei)oted to American
and
Jewish Ideals
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWlSi HOME
Vol, XI —No, 24
COLUMBL/.S, OHIO, JUNIC 15, 1928;
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy 10c
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FORMED IN NEW YORK TO RESTORE PEACE IN THE ZIONIST RANKS
While Work For "Peace and Reconstruction" Is Under Way, Charges Against Administration Arc Renewed—Election Instructions Are Now Point ofl Dispute—E?ftra- ordinary Preparations For Zionist Con¬ vention Are Being Made
J^EW,Y0RK;—A move to, restore peace within thc rfinks of, American -Zionists is tinder way with the forma¬ tion of a Committee on Peace and Re¬ construction, which aims to bring about a reconciliation between the leaders of . the ; Zionist opposition and the,, Zionist administration, so as, to avoid a tumul-, tuous convention and possible rupture in the movement.
While no official information was available, the Jewish Daily Bulletin learns, that the committee, Which is head¬ ed by Dr. Louis I. Harris, Commission¬ er of Health of the cit^ of New York, Prof.,'Mordecai' M. Kaplan, ;Israel. Miitz, Emahucl Neumann, and 'others, is at work, Negotiations for an amicable so¬ lution of, the iproblem of, introducing new forms into the administration of the Zionist Organization of America are said to be in progress both_ with the adminis¬ tration and opposition" leaders! A state¬ ment on the part ,of the Comrtiittec and its suggestion for a solution , will be forthcoming, in a few days,: it was : learned.
Both parties involved in the controver¬ sy claim that victory will be theirs if tlic ¦question is brought to'a vote at ttie Pitts- burgli convention. Early returns ort the - election of delegates' to the convention:, indicate that at least two-thirds , of the men delegates and a considerable num¬ ber of the Hadassah delegates would support the, present administration. The . opposition leaders are-confideiit that they would enlist the sympathy of'at least ohe- . third of the'men delegates and are con¬ vinced that the overwhelming vote of ihe Hadassah .delegates would also be in their favor, .these estimates, 5t; was declared by neutral observers, cannot be consid¬ ered absplutc as the total number of ^dele¬ gates who will be entitled to vote at the Zionist conventioii is still to be deter¬ mined, in view of recent, rulings made by: the Administrative .Committee.' . ,\ , While these peace negotiations are un¬ der way, ia n^w charge against the Zion-. ist. aidministration was made by Johan Smertenko of the Committee for 2,0.A. Reorganisation, opposition , spokesman and formerly active in the ,.New York League of Zibnist Revisionists. Mr. Smertenko in a statement issued on be¬ half of the Reorganization. Committee charged the Zionist administration with an attempt tp '^pack" the forthcoming convention jn Pittsburgh. As evidence of this attempt, Mr. Smertenko quoted a telegram sent out on May 31. over the signature of Louis Lipsky to Zibnjst dis¬ tricts reading as: follows.:
"Records district meihbership now be¬ ing printe<l for convention report, Please. forward all membership dues immediate¬ ly. Also'lists including rthose members who enrolled hut not' paid their dues. We. will ,crcdit your district and charge your account with enrolled but unpaid members. Urge you increase mcinber¬ ship.", '
.in his statement, Mr. Smertenko de- jclared, "The, Conimittee interprets this proposal expressed in the Words, 'We will credit your district arid charge your account with enrolled but unpaid mem¬ ber^' as nothing biit an attempt to pad ; the.membership roll in order to increase the number of .delegates at the Conven¬ tion. This is beipg done so that the Ad¬ ministration niay have enough vqtes to carry but its effprts to disfranchise the T01 Hadassah de egates. . /"
"Tbe formal restrictions for the elec¬ tions of delegates to the Zionist Conven¬ tion called for the election of all dele¬ gates 'during the week beginning May 27th.' The advertised instructions-show that the elections .were to end Sunday* June iJrd., The telegram was clearly in¬ tended to influence the elections. ¦ , "The districts of the Z. O. A. are not legal entities; they, have no' assets; and the members q^nnot be held liable for their dues, etc. The regular published annual reports of previous years carry no.charge accounts for membership. The statistics actually sumrnarize the previ-: , ously enrolled biit unrenewed member- ,ship. Thus the report for 1927, page 13, states .that the figure of 28,8<J2 members then on the records 'does not include 10,020 members who paid in 1026 but , have not as yet renewed their member¬ ship at May Blst, and nowhere in the report is unpaid membership listed as an asset or account receivable, nor is (here any chqrge account for such unpaid Oiembership," he stated. : Wiien the Jewish Daily BuUetin sub mitted the statement for reply, the Zion ist Organ.!zation of America declined to make any statement other than to make public a copy of a ¦ foj-m. letter to'all Zionist Districts throughout the country,
as the. telegram was sent to all Zionist Districts I throughout the country.
The form letter, dated June H, three days after the' telegram, made cl'ear that only such members as,have actually paid their dues arc entitled to participate in the elections and that the number' of delegates to be elected can be deter¬ mined only on thc basis of tlie number of paid members. Thc letter, signed by Louis Lipsky and addressed to all chair¬ men- and secretaries of Zionist districts after quoting the telegram as reproduced above, declared:
"It is essential that we-have the rec¬ ords complete for the report.to thc Con¬ vention., Therefore, we, lirgc the Dis¬ tricts lb take immediate steps to' comply with the. requcit! contained in the above telegram. .
, "It must be definitely understood that, when electing delegates tb thc Convention duly tltose/meirthcfs tufio hiwe actually /laid Iketr dues 7o Ihc District or fo the miional office for Ihc year 1!>28 arccft- (/ihie to vote, and the immber of delegates to be elected must be based on the num¬ ber of l>aid mcvibers. The unpaid niem¬ bers, whose names we have asked you to forward to the national office cannot be included in the total for the election of delegates. - .,';.,¦
"In order that your delegates, liiay be seated at the, Convention, it is essential that every District comply strictly with, the above rules."
Israel Maltin, auditor of the Zionist Organization of Anierica, ii'i commenting on,the figures given by Mr. Smertenko, declared: "The statement X\\.^t the Zion¬ ist'Districts carry no charge account is "untrue. The Zionist Organization owes at, all tiriies, to every, district, the two dollars refundable to the district, oil ev¬ ery regular member and the fi.ve dollars due the, district on account; of every sustaining member. At certain times of the year the Zionist Organization owes, the districts as. much as :$10,000. Last year, at the closing.of the .books, the. Zionist" Organization owed to the dis¬ tricts, §5,734.,, In 102«, at the end df the, fiscal ¦ year, .the Zionist Organization owed to the districts 53,3u0'.87. ¦ To date, June Sth, the Zionist Organization holds in reserve for thei districts approximately lii.OOO due tp, them'on account of 'mem-^ bershi p. refunds!"
Fred LazaruS; Jr. Announces the Awarding
of the Contract for New Orphan Home
Structures
Cornerstone I.^yinK Exercises Will Take Place on Sunday,
July Sth—Money For New Buildinj^s Is Being: Raised
Through Popular Subscriptions in Sixteen States
-^iChildren of the Home Have Enjoyed^ An
f Unique Health Record
Mrs. Irma L Lindheiin, Hadassah President, Has Left For Europe
Her' Physician Ordered Her to Sus¬ pend Work For Six Months; Con- ,vehtion Opens June .27
NEW YORK.—Mrs. Irma U Lind¬ heim, national president of Hadassah, women's Zionist' organization, and a leading figure in the present Zionist con¬ troversy, sailed on the'steamer Caronip on Friday 'night for Europe where she is expected to remain until the fall, The Hadassah convention will take place iii Pittsburgh on June.27, it was officially announced. .
In a statement to the representative of the Jewish Daily Bulletin; Mrs. Szold, secretary of the organizatioii, declared: "Mrs". Lindheim has igone abroad on the advice, of her physician, she having suf¬ fered a nervous breakdpiyn almost imme¬ diately following her husband's death, due to the fact that after the shock she persisted in her work ¦ fbr the United Palestine Appeal.
"Following the meeting of the Na¬ tional Board of Hadassah on April, 21, Mrs. Lindheim was completely pros¬ trated," Mrs. Szold declared. "Her doc^ tor ordered her to dJscontinut; her work for six nrionths, saying it would be abso¬ lutely suicide for her to attend the .Zionist convention. When she presented (his angle to the National Board, we, of course, recognized the seriousness of the situation. Mrs. Lindheim. expects to re-, turn in the fall when she hopes to re¬ sume her work." . , ¦
Asked whether Mrs. Lindheim would be a candidate for re-election as Hadas¬ sah's national president, Mrs, Szold said that depended on the convention. Mrs. Lindheim had not indicated that she wonld not accept re-election, she stated.
EAST BROAD ST. TEMPLE CHOm TO BE HONORED
, In .conjunction with the closing exer¬ cises of the Religious School of the East Broad Street Temple, which is scheduled to take place Monday eve¬ ning, June 18th, the members of the choir of thc Temple, will be presented with gifts by the officers and the execu¬ tive board of the Congregation.
„CLEVELA,Np, OHIO—With coh- tracts awarded for ncvv buildings for the Jevyish Orphan Home at Cleveland, ground.will be broken on the tbirty-one acre site in Unlvcr.sity Keiglits, a suburb of Cleveland, next \yccki and the sixtieth anniversary of tbe founding of the Hdiiie. by Districts Nos. 2 and 0, Independent Order D'nai B'rith, will be appropriately celebrated Ijy the laying of the corner¬ stone of thc new buildings at the ainiuftl meeting of the board members and the graduates bn Sunday, July «th. The new buildings'of the Orphan Home will be ready for occupancy during the suinmcr of l!»2a, it is stated by members of, the biiilding, coniinittec.
.Announcement df'tbe awarding of the gcneriil contract tb the A. A. Lai^e Cbn- struction Company, of Clevelaml, was made at tbe meetin.i;, of the building coin- mittee here today. Tbe enabling .com¬ mittees of both B'nai BVith, districts met with I-'rcd Lazarust Jr., president oi' the Home, at Columbus, Ohio, o.ii June '.^ndi'.and autlmrized the awarding of^the contracts by the building conimittee of 'the Home. ,¦,"¦',"
, Prominent Men on Committee
With Henry Mpiisky, of Omaha, Ne¬ braska, as cbairnian, tlie "enabling com¬ mittees have as tiieinbcrs Messrs. H. D. Frankel and William Sultan, of Chi¬ cago, representing. District No. 0, I. O. B. B,, and Sidney Kusworm, Dayton, Ohio; Louis J. Borinstein, of Indianap-. olis, aild' Ei J. Schanfarbcr, of Colum¬ bus, Ohio, repj-esentihg District No,- 2 of the Order. Members of the Orphan Home's, building^ committee arc Sam Gfoss, George",W. Furth, A. A. Benesch, Mrs. E.L. Geismer, and A. J. Bialosky, all of Cleveland, and members, of the board-of the Jewirih Orphan Home. J, L; Weinberg of the ,firm of'Morris apd Weinberg, Cleveland architects, a'nd himself,a gradxiate of the Orphan Home is -the architect. ',
Money for the new buildings is being raised through popular subscriptions in the sixteen states comprising Districts Nos. 2and.O, L O.B. B. Ohio. Indiana, and Missouri of District No.,, 3 have coinpleted, their campaigns-with $920,000 of. the million dollar assigned quota pledged, it was announced by. Presi¬ dent Fred Lazarus, Jr., at the annual convention of the district held at Coluni¬ bus, Ohio, last ' week. ¦ He announced that the. campaigns to be held soon in Kentucky, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexr ico and Wyoming, where campaign or-, ganizations have" been perfected, will bring the total for the di.strict over the million dollar mark. Campaigns arc alsb under way ' in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin of District No. t> and it is tixpectcd that the campaign for $600,000 in the latter district will be complete dtiring the early fall. District No. 6 in¬ cludes, also Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The campaign was formally launched in Dis¬ trict No. 2 last, Scptetnber and in Dis¬ trict No. ti in April >f this year. This is the first public appeal, for capital.funds since tbe Orphan Home was established in 18(iH, The campaign is being directed by^Tsidor Copns, with hfiadquartcrs in Cleveland.
Will Be Built on Cottage Plan
•The new Home will be built on the cottage plan, each cottage Housing twen- .ty-five children under the care of a cot¬ tage mother. There will also be an ad- niinistratibn huilding, a hospital, a recre¬ ation hall, a home fbr tbe superintendent, a chapel and a power plant. The recrea-' tiori building is to be known, as "Alumni Hair and is to be paid for from funds raised hy the graduates of the Home, men and women who !were once wards of the institution and who are now num¬ bered among successful citizens of twen¬ ty-eight states and several foreign coun¬ tries. George I. Wirpel, of Cleveland, and president of the Jewish Orphan Home's ' Alumni Association,' predicts that between $200,000 and $250,000 will be contributed by graduates of the Home.
The Jewish Orphan Home at Cleve¬ land was founded in 18f)8 by tbe B'nai B'ritli of Districts Nos. 2, fi and 7, pri¬ marily for the purpose of caring for or-' phaned children of the Civil War period. District No. 7 later established an insti¬ tution af its own. The' original build¬ ings on Woodland, Avenue, Cleveland, are stilt in use, none of which is less than fifty, years old. , In recent years, the, buildings have become dilapidated and the neighborhood deteriorated to
American And European Leaders Go Into Session On Palestine's Economic Problems
Informal Meeting at Country Home of Lord Mond Inaugurates
Deliberations of Non-Partisan Palestine Survey Commission , ^—Dr. Lee K. Frankel, I^u.is Marshall and Felix M. War¬ burg Will Take Part in Important Discussions
siicb an extent that it is known in local newspaper and police circles as the "rnaring third precinct" bccau.se of it.s criminal record.
. Unique Health Record
Children of thc Home have enjoyed an unique health record for .the past .seven years. With an average daily population of 1,00 children during tliat period, there has. not been a sJiigle death in the institution. Boys and girls pf the Home attend public schools aiul one out of every, four graduates from high school, which is said to be a higher aver¬ age, than foi" the community as a whole. Many of the graduates pursue cbursc:s hi colleges and institutions of higher education. There have been J.OOO chil¬ dren a<lmitted to. the Home, during the jjast sixty, years, il is slated'by Michael Sharlitt. superintendent. Originally cre¬ ated for children, now,admits any child from a 'shattered, home-, whose welfare is best served'by thc'Homu.
Members of the board df the Orphan Home are:
. District No., 2. I. O, B. B..: . O/iw—Alfrcd A. Beiiesch. A. J. Bial¬ osky, Mrs. Jac L. Einstebii' George W. Furth, \lrs. ' E. L. Geismer, Samuel Gross. Mrs. S. Koracb, Mrs. Martin .A. Marks and Max E; Meisel, Cleveland;
A, Edgar 'Aul.,'Herbert R. Bloch,'Wil-' Ham.J.. Shrotler arid Julius W. Freiberg.
¦ Cincinnati; Sidney G.- Kusworm, Harry Lehman and Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg.' Dayton; Fred.Lazarus. Jr., E. J. Schan¬ farber and Joseph Schontlial, Columbus; Clarence J. Strouss, Youngstown; I. Siilzbachcr. Steubenytlle;, Loiiis Weber, Zanesville; :Lduis Loeb, Ak.ron; Morris' H.Xemperti. Toledo.
' /»(/w(ifl—^Louis J. Borinstein, Sol , S. Fisrr., Indianapoli.s; Dr. AVilliani Feder, Gary; Ralph Clark, Fort. Wayne; Ira "W. Ciralski, South Bend. - : : _. Ken lucky—VtciV Levy, Jr.. Louisville.
jV/i-Monn—Emil . Mayer, Dr. Charles Rcderer, and Robert Thai,. St. Louis'; Philip :Schier, Kansas City.
/^(in.raj^Henry J. Wallenstei'n, Wich¬ ita. '' , V
C'o/fjrorfo—A. B. Gowan, Denver., , District' No. 0; L p. B.^ B.;. . .JUinois—H\Ta.m D. Frankel. D. S. koniiss, Joseph Michaels, Alex Mincer,
B. J. Samuels, Henry M. .Seligmaii, Wil¬ liam Sultan and Gustave M. Posner, ChiT cago; J. J. Ruhenstein, .Alton; William Bensinger, East St. Louis; M. G. New- man, Peoria; John Gellerman, Rock Is¬ land; B. K Lange, Springfield.
-l/iV/iir/ffji^Edward Lichtig, Bay City; Adolph Finstei-wald, Adolph Freund and Dr. . Charles Smith, Detroit; Maurice Rosenblum, Flint.
Wisconsin-^Xjco Reitnian and^Hy. E. Pad way, Milwaukee; Samuel Winkel- man, Wausau.
Nebraskd^-yioTTh Friend, Lincoln; William L. Hdlzman and Sam J. Leon, Omaha. ,
. j\/j»i(«ofo-—Joseph ' Scharif eld, Minne¬ apolis ; Charles -.Orcckovsky, Duluth. .
North /?(i/joM-:-Alex Stern, Fargo.
/onvi-^Max Schloss and Joseph Slate, Des Mbines.
l-ONDON.—Thc best, minds of, Amer¬ ican and European Jewry, Zionists and non-Zionista, are being applied to find a solution for' the economic .prnbloins W'hich are connected witli the upbuilding of Palestine, as a Jewish National Hdjnc, under tlie terms of thc Mandate of the League of Nations intrusted to Great Britain, at tbe sessions of the Non-Par¬ tisan Palestine Survey Cgmmissipn o'f this Jewish Agericy, which begau'today at the country home of Alfred, Lord Mond, at Melchet, near Southampton, i
The Commission, which will consider reports df many experts including sonie of the United States Government de¬ partments, has no olTicial Status insofar as the British.Government is concerned. The xvprk of the Commission, however, has . been carried out, .with the closest co-operation of the. Palestine Colonial Office. British Government circles have displayed great interest in tbe result of the deliberations, which will formulate definite recommendations for the. eco¬ nomic upbuilding of Palestiiie under tbe mandate of Great Britain. ¦,
The Marquis of Reading, former Vice¬ roy of India, Lord Mpnd, Louis Mar-' .shall, president of the American Jewish
Committee; Felix M.- Warburg, New York banker and pljilanthropist; Dr. Lcc K, Frankel. vice-president of the Metro¬ politan Life Insurance Company; Herr Oscar Wassermann, president of the Deutsche Reichsbank of .Berlin, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann..president, of" the World Zionist Organization, are participating in. the deliljerationsi
¦European Zionists and thc Jewish.pub¬ lic generally are following with great ¦: interest the proceedings of this.'confer-; encc, which marks the first time that outstanding Jewish leatlers of both hem¬ ispheres bave met to further the cause of the upbuilding of, Palestine.
Zionist leaders recalled today the hnm- ble origins of -thq Zionist movement. thirty years ago, under the leadership of Dr; Theodor Hcrl, when the outstanding Jewish-philanthrppists of that day, Baron Maurice de Hirsch and Baron Edmond de Rothschild, ridiculed the" idea. The conference of the American and Euro¬ pean leaders. at Melchet is viewed .as-.a great event In tbo history of the Jewish efforts to reclaim Palestine and as the. beginning of making the Palestine prob-, 1cm one of all Jewry instead of being confined to the members of the Zionist organizations.: ',
New Members of the East
Broad Street Temple
To Be Honored
Celebration Will Take Place at a
Special Meeting to Be Held
on Thursday Eveninig,
' J""c 21st. . i *
President Leon Nason has called a
special meeting for Thursday, June 21st,
at ¦ivhich time the recently acquired new
liiembers will be honored. Preparations
are being made for ;a very interesting
and social evening. , Reports of ,this
;year's accomplishments will be given and
^n outline for next year's activities, will
be considered. All members arc urged
to be present Thursday, evening, June
21st, at 8 o'clock.. ,It is also hoped that
every' iiew member will report on this
bccasio.n. ..^.
lXwN FETE WILL BE SPON- ' * SORED BY AGUDATH ACHIM SISTERHOOD ON JUNE 27TH
Isaac Miller Dies
After A Long Illness
Retired Merchant Passes Away at £lis Home, 2^2 Avondale Ave.; , Is Survived. by Widow and \ - .- Five Children
A(ter an illness which rendered, him bedfast for. a long time, Isaac Miller, .!}y:e 74, 222 Avondale Ave.,, passed away at his late home, Tuesday evening.
Mr. Miller was a retired merchant and was for 40 years prominently identi¬ fied with civic and business affairs at Ridgewootl, Ohio. ; '
Mr. Miller resided in Columbus six years. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Reggie; three daughters, Mrs., Esther Fuerst, Mrs. Celia Frank, and Miss Lillian; two sons, M. E. and Arthur; six grandchil¬ dren "and two brothers. Services were held Thursday, 2 p. m. at the'residence, with Rabbi Solomon Rivlin of the East Broad St. Temple officiating.
,Arthur Miller, a son of Mr. 'Miller, is a teacher at Highlai-1 Junior High School and also at the Schonthal Com¬ munity House.
Hot Dogs! Take a chance on a box of candy 1 What's your number on the "Hope Chest"!, /Pink lemonade 1 .
Air out for the Agudath Achim Sis¬ terhood lawn fete. S<it the date aside
NOW. ¦'. .;', '.¦,¦¦¦."
Wednesday evening, June 27th, the Sisterhood of- Agudath Achim will, give their :arinual fete" on the synagogue grounds at Washington and Donaldson- streets. ¦
The comtnittee headed by Mrs'. Jack Kauffman promises this to be the banner aifairiof the year. -Everyone is urged to be there. More details later.
High School Graduates
East //i(//(—Adeline' Bornheim, Fran¬ ces Burnstein, David Cohen, Tressa Colien, Florence Frank, Malcolm •Freid¬ enberg, Elsye Geriitcnfeld, Ben Harmon, Naomi Harmon, Abe Levinson, Esther Levinson, Helen Levinson, Marjorie Loeb, Evelyn Nassau,. Harriet Smith, Maribelle Wallach. • ,
S(}hU\ //iV//(^Harry Bertin, Ralph Baker; Bertha. Bonowitz, Phillip Born¬ stein, Milton. Caller, Sam Coopersmith, Abe Dworkin, Sarah Caraway, Gertrude Furiuan, Irving Gertner, Sylvia Ginter, Minnie GodoEsfcy, Morris Greenstein. Bess Gurwin, Rose Granimer^.Sara Hor¬ witz, Rebecca HurWitz, Harry Krakoff, Sara Luper, Bessie Maggied, Ethel Nu¬ lls, .Minnie Olander, Harry Olander, Sara Rosen fekl,' Ann Ruben, Frieda Shu¬ man, Helen Palestrant, Henry Schiff,, Isadore Silver, Esther Slaven, Sarah Slaven, Bertha Swartz, Frieda Swartz, Janet Wasserstrom, Florence Werne, Sam Sonkin. '
Central //iVy/i~-Louis Berline, Ann Goldberg. .Annette Katz, Beatrice Roth, Davp Silber, Jeanette. .Stone, Max Weiss, David Zarensky.
EZRAS NOSHIM MEETING
A meeting of the Ezras Noshim Soci¬ ety wiir take place in the vestry room of the Agudath ,^ciiim Synagogue, Sun¬ day, June 17th at 2 p. m.,
BETH JACOB CONGREGA- vl TION TO SPONSOR y, K' LAWN FETE ,'J^
Tlie Ladies Auxiliary of the Beth Jacob Congregation will hold their an¬ nual Lawn Fete, Tuesday evening, }m\e 2{)th, on the Beth Jacob Grounds on Donaldson Street. Mrs. H. Kerstein and Mrs. C. H. Furman are in charge of this affair, and propiise this to be the banner event, of the season. A cordial invitation is extended to all Chronicle teaders. ¦
MANY NEW ACTIVITIES AT SCHONTHAL CAMP
Registrations are about completed for the mothers and girls whose sessions begin Sunday, June 17th, and ends July 29th. Many new aetivities have, been planned with experts in charge of each department.
AU Chronicle readers are hereby invited to come out tomorrow (Sunday) to visit the beautiful summer camp: made possible by the gen¬ erosity of "Pop" Schonthal,
HIS BAR MITZVAH WILL
BE CELEBRATED
TODAY
Mr. and Mrs. Saul Ruben, 071 Lin¬ wood Avenue, announce thcBar-Mitzvah of their son, Louis,. Saturday, June IGth, a.t the Agudath Achim Synagogue, Wash¬ ington and Donaldson Street. Master Ruben, who possesses a beauiifnl alto voice and has ably assisted Cantor Ansel Freedman on the holidays for the past two years, will conduct the entire serv¬ ices pn the Sabbath of his ConfirnutfOii Day. This will bo the first time In local Jewish history that a cantor of his ex¬ treme youth will conduct' the entire Sab¬ bath services ut the Agudath Achim Syn¬ agogue. Services will commence at 8 a. m.
Louis is a student of Cantor Frecd¬ man, of 601 So. 22nd Street, ^i attends Uooseyeh, Junior High School.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruben will hold a recep¬ tion at their honie, <i71 Linwood Avenue, Sunday June 17th, from 7 to U p. m. in honor of their son's Bar Mitzv^i. All friends arc cordially invited.

•'S.»''i
Central 0/iio's On/e/
Jewish Newspaper
Reaching Ecery Home
xamk
Dei)oted to American
and
Jewish Ideals
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWlSi HOME
Vol, XI —No, 24
COLUMBL/.S, OHIO, JUNIC 15, 1928;
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy 10c
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FORMED IN NEW YORK TO RESTORE PEACE IN THE ZIONIST RANKS
While Work For "Peace and Reconstruction" Is Under Way, Charges Against Administration Arc Renewed—Election Instructions Are Now Point ofl Dispute—E?ftra- ordinary Preparations For Zionist Con¬ vention Are Being Made
J^EW,Y0RK;—A move to, restore peace within thc rfinks of, American -Zionists is tinder way with the forma¬ tion of a Committee on Peace and Re¬ construction, which aims to bring about a reconciliation between the leaders of . the ; Zionist opposition and the,, Zionist administration, so as, to avoid a tumul-, tuous convention and possible rupture in the movement.
While no official information was available, the Jewish Daily Bulletin learns, that the committee, Which is head¬ ed by Dr. Louis I. Harris, Commission¬ er of Health of the cit^ of New York, Prof.,'Mordecai' M. Kaplan, ;Israel. Miitz, Emahucl Neumann, and 'others, is at work, Negotiations for an amicable so¬ lution of, the iproblem of, introducing new forms into the administration of the Zionist Organization of America are said to be in progress both_ with the adminis¬ tration and opposition" leaders! A state¬ ment on the part ,of the Comrtiittec and its suggestion for a solution , will be forthcoming, in a few days,: it was : learned.
Both parties involved in the controver¬ sy claim that victory will be theirs if tlic ¦question is brought to'a vote at ttie Pitts- burgli convention. Early returns ort the - election of delegates' to the convention:, indicate that at least two-thirds , of the men delegates and a considerable num¬ ber of the Hadassah delegates would support the, present administration. The . opposition leaders are-confideiit that they would enlist the sympathy of'at least ohe- . third of the'men delegates and are con¬ vinced that the overwhelming vote of ihe Hadassah .delegates would also be in their favor, .these estimates, 5t; was declared by neutral observers, cannot be consid¬ ered absplutc as the total number of ^dele¬ gates who will be entitled to vote at the Zionist conventioii is still to be deter¬ mined, in view of recent, rulings made by: the Administrative .Committee.' . ,\ , While these peace negotiations are un¬ der way, ia n^w charge against the Zion-. ist. aidministration was made by Johan Smertenko of the Committee for 2,0.A. Reorganisation, opposition , spokesman and formerly active in the ,.New York League of Zibnist Revisionists. Mr. Smertenko in a statement issued on be¬ half of the Reorganization. Committee charged the Zionist administration with an attempt tp '^pack" the forthcoming convention jn Pittsburgh. As evidence of this attempt, Mr. Smertenko quoted a telegram sent out on May 31. over the signature of Louis Lipsky to Zibnjst dis¬ tricts reading as: follows.:
"Records district meihbership now be¬ ing printe28 arccft- (/ihie to vote, and the immber of delegates to be elected must be based on the num¬ ber of l>aid mcvibers. The unpaid niem¬ bers, whose names we have asked you to forward to the national office cannot be included in the total for the election of delegates. - .,';.,¦
"In order that your delegates, liiay be seated at the, Convention, it is essential that every District comply strictly with, the above rules."
Israel Maltin, auditor of the Zionist Organization of Anierica, ii'i commenting on,the figures given by Mr. Smertenko, declared: "The statement X\\.^t the Zion¬ ist'Districts carry no charge account is "untrue. The Zionist Organization owes at, all tiriies, to every, district, the two dollars refundable to the district, oil ev¬ ery regular member and the fi.ve dollars due the, district on account; of every sustaining member. At certain times of the year the Zionist Organization owes, the districts as. much as :$10,000. Last year, at the closing.of the .books, the. Zionist" Organization owed to the dis¬ tricts, §5,734.,, In 102«, at the end df the, fiscal ¦ year, .the Zionist Organization owed to the districts 53,3u0'.87. ¦ To date, June Sth, the Zionist Organization holds in reserve for thei districts approximately lii.OOO due tp, them'on account of 'mem-^ bershi p. refunds!"
Fred LazaruS; Jr. Announces the Awarding
of the Contract for New Orphan Home
Structures
Cornerstone I.^yinK Exercises Will Take Place on Sunday,
July Sth—Money For New Buildinj^s Is Being: Raised
Through Popular Subscriptions in Sixteen States
-^iChildren of the Home Have Enjoyed^ An
f Unique Health Record
Mrs. Irma L Lindheiin, Hadassah President, Has Left For Europe
Her' Physician Ordered Her to Sus¬ pend Work For Six Months; Con- ,vehtion Opens June .27
NEW YORK.—Mrs. Irma U Lind¬ heim, national president of Hadassah, women's Zionist' organization, and a leading figure in the present Zionist con¬ troversy, sailed on the'steamer Caronip on Friday 'night for Europe where she is expected to remain until the fall, The Hadassah convention will take place iii Pittsburgh on June.27, it was officially announced. .
In a statement to the representative of the Jewish Daily Bulletin; Mrs. Szold, secretary of the organizatioii, declared: "Mrs". Lindheim has igone abroad on the advice, of her physician, she having suf¬ fered a nervous breakdpiyn almost imme¬ diately following her husband's death, due to the fact that after the shock she persisted in her work ¦ fbr the United Palestine Appeal.
"Following the meeting of the Na¬ tional Board of Hadassah on April, 21, Mrs. Lindheim was completely pros¬ trated," Mrs. Szold declared. "Her doc^ tor ordered her to dJscontinut; her work for six nrionths, saying it would be abso¬ lutely suicide for her to attend the .Zionist convention. When she presented (his angle to the National Board, we, of course, recognized the seriousness of the situation. Mrs. Lindheim. expects to re-, turn in the fall when she hopes to re¬ sume her work." . , ¦
Asked whether Mrs. Lindheim would be a candidate for re-election as Hadas¬ sah's national president, Mrs, Szold said that depended on the convention. Mrs. Lindheim had not indicated that she wonld not accept re-election, she stated.
EAST BROAD ST. TEMPLE CHOm TO BE HONORED
, In .conjunction with the closing exer¬ cises of the Religious School of the East Broad Street Temple, which is scheduled to take place Monday eve¬ ning, June 18th, the members of the choir of thc Temple, will be presented with gifts by the officers and the execu¬ tive board of the Congregation.
„CLEVELA,Np, OHIO—With coh- tracts awarded for ncvv buildings for the Jevyish Orphan Home at Cleveland, ground.will be broken on the tbirty-one acre site in Unlvcr.sity Keiglits, a suburb of Cleveland, next \yccki and the sixtieth anniversary of tbe founding of the Hdiiie. by Districts Nos. 2 and 0, Independent Order D'nai B'rith, will be appropriately celebrated Ijy the laying of the corner¬ stone of thc new buildings at the ainiuftl meeting of the board members and the graduates bn Sunday, July «th. The new buildings'of the Orphan Home will be ready for occupancy during the suinmcr of l!»2a, it is stated by members of, the biiilding, coniinittec.
.Announcement df'tbe awarding of the gcneriil contract tb the A. A. Lai^e Cbn- struction Company, of Clevelaml, was made at tbe meetin.i;, of the building coin- mittee here today. Tbe enabling .com¬ mittees of both B'nai BVith, districts met with I-'rcd Lazarust Jr., president oi' the Home, at Columbus, Ohio, o.ii June '.^ndi'.and autlmrized the awarding of^the contracts by the building conimittee of 'the Home. ,¦,"¦',"
, Prominent Men on Committee
With Henry Mpiisky, of Omaha, Ne¬ braska, as cbairnian, tlie "enabling com¬ mittees have as tiieinbcrs Messrs. H. D. Frankel and William Sultan, of Chi¬ cago, representing. District No. 0, I. O. B. B,, and Sidney Kusworm, Dayton, Ohio; Louis J. Borinstein, of Indianap-. olis, aild' Ei J. Schanfarbcr, of Colum¬ bus, Ohio, repj-esentihg District No,- 2 of the Order. Members of the Orphan Home's, building^ committee arc Sam Gfoss, George",W. Furth, A. A. Benesch, Mrs. E.L. Geismer, and A. J. Bialosky, all of Cleveland, and members, of the board-of the Jewirih Orphan Home. J, L; Weinberg of the ,firm of'Morris apd Weinberg, Cleveland architects, a'nd himself,a gradxiate of the Orphan Home is -the architect. ',
Money for the new buildings is being raised through popular subscriptions in the sixteen states comprising Districts Nos. 2and.O, L O.B. B. Ohio. Indiana, and Missouri of District No.,, 3 have coinpleted, their campaigns-with $920,000 of. the million dollar assigned quota pledged, it was announced by. Presi¬ dent Fred Lazarus, Jr., at the annual convention of the district held at Coluni¬ bus, Ohio, last ' week. ¦ He announced that the. campaigns to be held soon in Kentucky, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexr ico and Wyoming, where campaign or-, ganizations have" been perfected, will bring the total for the di.strict over the million dollar mark. Campaigns arc alsb under way ' in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin of District No. t> and it is tixpectcd that the campaign for $600,000 in the latter district will be complete dtiring the early fall. District No. 6 in¬ cludes, also Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The campaign was formally launched in Dis¬ trict No. 2 last, Scptetnber and in Dis¬ trict No. ti in April >f this year. This is the first public appeal, for capital.funds since tbe Orphan Home was established in 18(iH, The campaign is being directed by^Tsidor Copns, with hfiadquartcrs in Cleveland.
Will Be Built on Cottage Plan
•The new Home will be built on the cottage plan, each cottage Housing twen- .ty-five children under the care of a cot¬ tage mother. There will also be an ad- niinistratibn huilding, a hospital, a recre¬ ation hall, a home fbr tbe superintendent, a chapel and a power plant. The recrea-' tiori building is to be known, as "Alumni Hair and is to be paid for from funds raised hy the graduates of the Home, men and women who !were once wards of the institution and who are now num¬ bered among successful citizens of twen¬ ty-eight states and several foreign coun¬ tries. George I. Wirpel, of Cleveland, and president of the Jewish Orphan Home's ' Alumni Association,' predicts that between $200,000 and $250,000 will be contributed by graduates of the Home.
The Jewish Orphan Home at Cleve¬ land was founded in 18f)8 by tbe B'nai B'ritli of Districts Nos. 2, fi and 7, pri¬ marily for the purpose of caring for or-' phaned children of the Civil War period. District No. 7 later established an insti¬ tution af its own. The' original build¬ ings on Woodland, Avenue, Cleveland, are stilt in use, none of which is less than fifty, years old. , In recent years, the, buildings have become dilapidated and the neighborhood deteriorated to
American And European Leaders Go Into Session On Palestine's Economic Problems
Informal Meeting at Country Home of Lord Mond Inaugurates
Deliberations of Non-Partisan Palestine Survey Commission , ^—Dr. Lee K. Frankel, I^u.is Marshall and Felix M. War¬ burg Will Take Part in Important Discussions
siicb an extent that it is known in local newspaper and police circles as the "rnaring third precinct" bccau.se of it.s criminal record.
. Unique Health Record
Children of thc Home have enjoyed an unique health record for .the past .seven years. With an average daily population of 1,00 children during tliat period, there has. not been a sJiigle death in the institution. Boys and girls pf the Home attend public schools aiul one out of every, four graduates from high school, which is said to be a higher aver¬ age, than foi" the community as a whole. Many of the graduates pursue cbursc:s hi colleges and institutions of higher education. There have been J.OOO chil¬ dren a